Huh. I was notified a month in advance. I got lucky and didn't have to serve on a single trial for the whole month because they all settled or were pushed back. There was one brief trial that I missed, but that would've been the only one.

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Vegedus wrote:I don't think we have jury duty here. I'm unsure how it works. I think it'd be an interesting experience actually.

So..there are professional jurors?

"Suddenly Frodo noticed that a strange-looking weather-beaten man, sitting in the shadows near the wall, was also listening intently to the hobbit-talk. He had a tall tankard in front of him, and was smoking a long-stemmed pipe curiously carved. His legs were stretched out before him, showing high boots of supple leather that fitted him well, but had seen much wear and were now caked with mud. A travel-stained cloak of heavy dark-green cloth was drawn close about him, and in spite of the heat of the room he wore a hood that overshadowed his face; but the gleam of his eyes could be seen as he watched the hobbits."

Hm, doing some research. I'm not a hundred percent certain, but basically everyone can get picked as a juror here too. However, you are picked for a duration of four years and do get paid, so it's basically a half-time job. There's a lot of special cases where you can decline, especially notably if the juror duty might conflict with your job, so a lot of retired people apparently end up doing it. I guess the long period is why it's not something most people hear about. Plus, we don't sue each other all the time like 'MURICA!

Vegedus wrote:Hm, doing some research. I'm not a hundred percent certain, but basically everyone can get picked as a juror here too. However, you are picked for a duration of four years and do get paid, so it's basically a half-time job. There's a lot of special cases where you can decline, especially notably if the juror duty might conflict with your job, so a lot of retired people apparently end up doing it. I guess the long period is why it's not something most people hear about. Plus, we don't sue each other all the time like 'MURICA!

Actually that's kind of how it works in America, if you serve in a trial you get a couple years before being called on again, if you don't get picked for a trail you'll wind up getting called on about a year later. You get paid enough for bus fair for the first 3 days, and then it jumps up on later days. Most people get off from hardship or lying through their teeth. So most juries here are people too stupid to get out of jury duty, people with too much value in "civic duty" and old people who are bored and like Matlock.